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Commentary:

We have a new #1! The third volume of Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples' Saga came out this week and made the jump over The Walking Dead. Considering this is while The Walking Dead is showing on television, and Saga is purely a comics property with no tie-in to other media, that is quite the accomplishment. It is currently #43 on the overall Amazon books chart.

Most new items this week are Kindle editions (Injustice, The Walking Dead, Saga, How About Never...) The only non-Kindle debut is Godzilla: Awakening, a graphic novel prequel to the upcoming Godzilla movie.

In fact, it's a pretty boring week overall on the Amazon chart, with the usually suspects doing the usual things.

So I'll point out what's not happening, and that's any appearance by Captain America, who has a new major motion picture coming out next week.

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Commentary:

The latest Walking Dead collection remains popular, on top of the comics chart and #54 on the overall Amazon books chart.

The top debut this week is the pre-order for The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances, the latest from The Oatmeal's Matthew Inman, which isn't scheduled to come out until September.

Also debuting relatively high this week is How About Never—Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons, a cartoon memoir by the New Yorker's cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff.

A Marvel Kindle edition sale puts Spider-Man: Spider-Island & Thor: Season One on the chart this week. Oddly (and perhaps a bit worryingly for Marvel) none of the Captain America titles involved in the sale make the chart.

Rounding out this week's debuts are the Justice League: Trinity War hardcover, and the latest installment in Moore & O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin.

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Commentary:

A new #1 this week! The twentieth Walking Dead paperback hit comic stores and Kindle (debuting on the chart this week at #16) this week, and the print edition ships from Amazon next week. Thirteen Walking Dead comics and collections make the top fifty chart this week, including the top three slots.

Image comics kind of rule the chart this week; between Walking Dead and Saga they take six of the top ten and eight of the top fifteen.

The top debut this week is the newest Avatar: The Last Airbender OGN, impressively at #7. It ships next week as well.

Manga-wise Attack on Titan continues to dominate the top fifty, although a new-to-the-chart title, Nisekoi: False Love, manages to crack in near the bottom.

Also debuting this week are the third A Game of Thrones volume (in pre-order); and single Kindle issues of DC's Forever Evil #6 & American Vampire #1, the latter being the beneficiary of a 99¢ American Vampire sale.

Alessandro Sanna's The River, which debuted last week and earlier this week was cracking the top ten, has dropped completely off the chart this morning. At first I suspected a re-categorization and it turns out that Amazon has sold out of their stock and is now listing it as 'Usually ships within 2 to 4 weeks.' So it is still popular, just presently not selling due to lack of copies.